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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Engel who wrote (57605)	5/7/1999 3:51:00 PM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571996

Paul - " Fab 30 was designed in 1996 with construction starting in the Spring of 1997." Good point. Every time I read soemthing about F30 being "designed" for Cu processing, I wonder what in the heck they are trying to say. I believe what the mean is that they don't have the resources to transition their whole operation to Cu at one time, so they're doing it in the unfinished building first. This facility and process isn't going to be ready by the time Intel goes to .18, so they have to continue with the Al development in the fab that's up and running. Ex-pen-sive. I don't know how you design a fab building for Cu. When you transition to Cu, you move some stuff around, move in some Cu equipment, and start processing.